Although there is no official confirmation so far, the Dominican Republic would expect the arrival today of a batch of one million doses of CoronaVac vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac.
This is based on the announcement made by the Dominican government that, on the 15th of this month, one million doses of Sinovac vaccine will arrive in the Dominican territory and that on the 25th, also in March, a second batch of the same quantity will arrive. . , to supplement two million doses of Chinese vaccine.
Eight million doses of vaccines had been contracted with the same Asian company, so President Luis Abinader announced on February 27 that by the end of June this year the country would vaccinate 80% of its population.
On February 23, the country received a shipment of 768,000 vaccines against Covid-19 from China, which together with 50,000 doses of Covishiel from India, which were already in the country, began the vaccination process, which, on Wednesday , last week it covered 606,006 people with a first dose.
The government has announced that the second dose will begin on the 24th of this month. This weekend, the Vice President of the Republic assured that they saved a quantity of vaccines from the first batch to apply the second dose to those people who have already been vaccinated in the first instance.
The process has been stopped
The vaccination plan against Covid-19 began on February 16 with health workers working on the front line or in hospitals in Covid, later it was extended to all health workers, teachers and older adults, who came enthusiastically and en masse. at vaccination stations.
In addition to the posts in the public network, the process was joined by health centers and private institutions, including universities, which opened vaccination centers in their units.
However, last week the Government announced that from last Friday to next Friday, vaccination will be applied only through appointments made through the Vacunaterd.gob.do platform, to allow time for the arrival of more doses and for staff working in Vaccination stations can recharge energy, according to the Vice President of the Republic and the coordinator of the Health Cabinet, Raquel Peña.
80% of the population
In his February 27 speech to the National Assembly, the President of the Republic reported that he had contracted eight million vaccines with the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, which will arrive in the country between April and May, so he hopes that by the end of June had 80 percent of the Dominican population was vaccinated.
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Phase vaccination
The country intends to immunize 7.8 million people of legal age, for which 15.6 million doses will be needed. Initially, the government reported that it contracted 10 million doses with AstraZéneca and 7.9 million with Pfizer, but so far it has not received doses from these pharmaceutical companies.